Florida pet spa mystery link to China's great firewall

WHAT does a pet grooming service in Florida have to do with Chinese internet censorship? Every day, China’s government subtly redirects swathes of its citizens to the website of a small pet spa in Miami offering beauty treatments for dogs and cats – though it is a mystery why.

Citizens attempting to access banned sites and being dispatched to strange corners of the global internet is just one of the findings to emerge from a study of China’s murky regime of internet censorship. There is also evidence that China has a centrally coordinated plan – unevenly applied across …